The Mark Levin Show
The Mark Levin Show is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Mark Levin. The program is broadcast nationwide on Westwood One and reaches an estimated seven million weekly listeners, according to an estimate from Talkers Magazine. The Talkers estimate puts Levin's listenership in a tie with The Glenn Beck Radio Program for fourth most-listened-to talk radio show in the United States and, counting all radio formats, is the seventh most-listened-to radio program in the United States.
History
Levin began his career as a radio host in 2002 in a Sunday afternoon timeslot on WABC. WABC assigned Levin to fill in starting on June 16, 2003 after the station dropped The Savage Nation for the 7–9 pm.time period weeknights. On September 2, 2003, his show moved to the 6–7 p.m. timeslot on WABC. Levin's WABC program expanded to 2 hours starting May 17, 2004.On January 30, 2006, ABC Radio Networks began syndicating the show. Initially, ABC expanded the program to three other stations, including WMAL in Levin's local Washington metropolitan area. On February 2, 2009, the program expanded to 3 hours. ABC's radio assets later changed hands to Citadel Broadcasting in 2007, then to Cumulus Media in 2011; in 2013, Cumulus combined all of its radio assets under the banner of Westwood One. Levin signed a five-year contract extension with Westwood One in January 2015.
The Mark Levin Show can be heard on over 150 stations and the SIRIUS XM Patriot channel. Levin's show has been rated number one in its time slot in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas–Fort Worth and Washington, D.C.
On June 25, 2018, Levin was elected into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Format
His radio show, a mix of political and social commentary from a conservative point of view, covers legal issues, including decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Levin follows the conventional talk radio model of taking listener calls throughout the show; he is often hostile to callers opposing his views, frequently cutting them off with words like "get off my phone, you idiot."The show's program segments often feature Levin recounting contemporary news items and controversies. The pace of these segments starts as slow and brooding and eventually escalate into Levin angrily shouting questions at "Mr. Producer", who does not have a speaking role on the show.
Levin uses his own on-air jargon, some of which he invented and some of which he popularized. He uses disparaging nicknames for mainstream media outlets, such as "New York Slimes" for The New York Times, "Washington Compost" for The Washington Post, or "MSLSD" for MSNBC.
Mark Levin Lexicon
Levin has created a lexicon to make fun of and refer to certain persons and news outlets in a derogatory and humorous style. These are continuous terms that Levin has used over the years.| Name | Epithet |
| New York Times | New York Slimes |
| Washington Post | Washington Compost |
| Associated Press | Associated Depressed |
| Huffington Post | Huffington Puffington Compost |
| ABC News | ABC Snooze |
| CBS News | CBS Snooze |
| MSNBC | MSLSD |
| CNN | Constipated News Network |
| Meet the Press | Meet the Depressed |
| Face the Nation | Deface the Nation |
| Center for American Progress | Center for Anti-American Progress |
| Morning Joe | Morning Schmoe |
| Hardball with Chris Matthews | Screwball on Screwball, Chris "I'll have another drink" Matthews |
| Bernie Sanders | Comrade Sanders, Communist Kook |
| Rachel Maddow | Rachel Madcow |
| Liberal Journalists | "Opinionists" |
| Media Matters | The criminal operation known as Media Matters, Media Doesn't Matters |
| America Civil Liberties Union | American Criminal Liberties Union |
| National Organization for Woman | National Organization for Women Who Look Like Men National Organization for Really Ugly Women |
| Chuck Schumer | Chucky Schmucky Schumer, Chump Schumer |
| Nancy Pelosi | Stretch Pelosi |
| Barbara Boxer | The Dwarf Senator |
| Dick Durbin | Little Dick Durbin |
| Hillary Clinton | Hillary Rotten Clinton, Her Thighness |
| Bill Clinton | BJ Bill Jefferson Clinton |
| Joe Biden | The Dumbest Man in the Senate, Plugs Biden |
| Dianne Feinstein | Dianne Frankenfeinstein |
| Barack Obama | Barack Milhous Nobama, Barack America |
| Al Sharpton | Al "Not So" Sharpton |
| Michael Savage | Weiner Nation |
| Bill Maher | Short, stupid, white-comedian guy |
| Department of Justice | Department of Injustice |
| IRS | IRSS, a play on the Nazi SS |
| 9th Circuit Court of Appeals | 9th Circuit Court of Schlemiels |
| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Comrade Cortez, Alexandria Occupational Communist, Occasional Cortex |
| Brian Stelter | Helter Stelter |
| Council of American Islamic Relations | Islamic Council of American Hate |
| Iranian Regime | Islamonazis |
| John Murtha | Lardass |
| EPA | Soviet Protection Agency |